19 December 2003 03:36
Poland to help Russia process stocks left from lewisite destruction
MOSCOW. Dec 19 (Interfax) - Polish Ambassador to Russia Stefan Meller and General Director of the Russian
Conventional Weapons Agency Viktor Kholstov signed a Technical Executive Agreement on implementing a joint chemical
disarmament project in Moscow on Friday.
"The Technical Executive Agreement is aimed at implementing the first project for developing technology and
creating an experimental industrial facility for processing stocks obtained through destroying lewisite," Meller
told Interfax.
He said that the Russian-Polish intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in chemical weapons disposal signed in
Warsaw on December 17, 2002 was the legal foundation for signing the document.
The signing of the Technical Executive Agreement coincided with the first anniversary of the commissioning of
Russia's first full-scale facility for chemical weapons disposal in the town of Gorny in the Saratov region. This
facility disposes of lewisite.
Over five tonnes of lewisite have been destroyed in Gorny.
For details, see the Interfax-Military News Agency newswire. [RU EUROPE EEU EMRG PL AID ENV] <>
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